Fake or Fortune? BBC1
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Radio Times said:
Fake or Fortune?
Sunday 19 June
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Monet
1/4, series 1
Missing Antiques Roadshow?
This art-world caper is just as absorbing.
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould assess disputed paintings: can they settle ticklish questions of authenticity using science, connoisseurship and the far-reaching powers of TV? Their first case is a beautiful Monet riverscape bought by David Joel, now 82, many years ago, but which the authorities refuse to accept is genuine.
David is a brilliant character and the array of tests the painting has to pass are fascinating, including a scan by a 240-millionpixel camera, whose French inventor explains it can "peel back ze layers of paint like an ernion" (he demonstrates on the Mona Lisa).
The programme also shines light on the sinister levers of art world power in Paris. Plus, in what may be a TV first, Fiona Bruce loses her cool and gets quite cross. In French.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
This should be of interest to anybody who collects stuff as there is a whole world of art faking out there which is really scary......Sunday 19 June
7:00pm - 8:00pm
BBC1
Monet
1/4, series 1
Missing Antiques Roadshow?
This art-world caper is just as absorbing.
Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould assess disputed paintings: can they settle ticklish questions of authenticity using science, connoisseurship and the far-reaching powers of TV? Their first case is a beautiful Monet riverscape bought by David Joel, now 82, many years ago, but which the authorities refuse to accept is genuine.
David is a brilliant character and the array of tests the painting has to pass are fascinating, including a scan by a 240-millionpixel camera, whose French inventor explains it can "peel back ze layers of paint like an ernion" (he demonstrates on the Mona Lisa).
The programme also shines light on the sinister levers of art world power in Paris. Plus, in what may be a TV first, Fiona Bruce loses her cool and gets quite cross. In French.
Radio Times reviewer - David Butcher
Complete idiocy.
It's simply the Wildenstein institute refusing to accept, in the face of utterly overwhelming evidence, that their family made a mistake in the past.
Despite the fact that they had previously acccrdited paintings that turned out to be fakes.
It genuinely left me feeling angry, and desperately sorry for the old boy.
The system is a disgrace and so is the Wildenstein institute.
It's simply the Wildenstein institute refusing to accept, in the face of utterly overwhelming evidence, that their family made a mistake in the past.
Despite the fact that they had previously acccrdited paintings that turned out to be fakes.
It genuinely left me feeling angry, and desperately sorry for the old boy.
The system is a disgrace and so is the Wildenstein institute.
No I don't think so - he paid 40k for it I think.
I can't work out whether it's worth more or less after the programme though.
Anyone who is anyone says it's a Monet - but the people who really matter say it is not.
I can't see how they are credible after that though.
Pound to a penny says the Wildenstein institute didn't know that there had been a programme made where they demonstrated beyond any doubt that it was authentic. More fool them.
I can't work out whether it's worth more or less after the programme though.
Anyone who is anyone says it's a Monet - but the people who really matter say it is not.
I can't see how they are credible after that though.
Pound to a penny says the Wildenstein institute didn't know that there had been a programme made where they demonstrated beyond any doubt that it was authentic. More fool them.
The Wildenstein's are used to accepting obvious fakes. Isn't Guy's sister-in-law this creature?
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The Wildenstein's are used to accepting obvious fakes. Isn't Guy's sister-in-law this creature?
http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
The Wildenstein's are used to accepting obvious fakes. Isn't Guy's sister-in-law this creature?
http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
audidoody said:
The Wildenstein's are used to accepting obvious fakes. Isn't Guy's sister-in-law this creature?
http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
Fook me that is hideous!!http://tinyurl.com/3ugecjx
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